A243 crash in Kingston upon Thames on 20 August 1992 at 15:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Renault Espace were involved in a crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames at 15:10 on Thursday 20 August 1992. The female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Aug 1992
- Thursday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Renault Espace
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3506, longitude -0.31326, in the KT9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingston upon Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199201VK00641
- Council area
- Kingston upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 243
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A243 in Elmbridge, 13 October 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010VD1043
Slight
Leyland Roadrunner crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 31 October 1991
At the same spotRef 199101VK01078
Slight
Car crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 7 May 1984
At the same spotRef 198401VD00428
Slight
Skoda 136 crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 29 March 1992
At the same spotRef 199201VK00242
Slight
Scania crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 26 July 2022
4 m awayRef 2022010390880
Slight
Car crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 9 June 1989
10 m awayRef 198901VK00538
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Espace
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 199201VK00641 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kingston upon Thames road accident statistics for 1992.